by Scott Austin Published by Palgrave Macmillan Tao and Trinity treats the Trinity as a philosophical notion coming to birth in Heraclitus, Parmenides, and Plato. All three attempt to treat the idea of an absolute source or unity of all things, and are driven in the direction of a first principle which is an instance […]
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy by Claire Katz
By Claire Katz Published by I.B. Tauris How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations of general philosophical inquiry. Questions about God, reality, language, and […]
Ritual, Women, and Philippi: Reimagining the Early Philippian Community
by Jason Lamoreaux Published by Cascade Books As one surveys the scholarship on the canonical letter to the Philippians, one notices the lack of attention to women within many scholars’ analyses. To a certain extent, this lack of attention exists because ancient texts often leave out information about women. Using ritual studies, archaeology, and textual […]
Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History by Kristi Sweet
By Kristi Sweet Published by Cambridge University Press Kant’s ‘practical philosophy’ comprehends a diverse group of his writings on ethics, politics, law, religion, and the philosophy of history and culture. Kristi E. Sweet demonstrates the unity and interdependence of these writings by showing how they take as their animating principle the human desire for what […]
Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism by Claire Katz
By Claire Katz Published by Indiana University Press Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education, Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas’s larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas’s “Crisis of Humanism,” which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into […]
Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition: Situating Animals in Hare’s Two Level Utilitarianism by Gary Varner
By Gary Varner Published by Oxford University Press R.M. Hare was one of the most important ethical theorists of the 20th century, and one of his graduate students, Peter Singer, became famous for his writings on animals and personhood. Singer now says that he endorses Hare’s “two-level utilitarianism,” and he has invoked the theory’s distinction […]
Creation and the Sovereignty of God by Hugh McCann
By Hugh McCann Published by Indiana University Press Creation and the Sovereignty of God brings fresh insight to a defense of God. Traditional theistic belief declared a perfect being who creates and sustains everything and who exercises sovereignty over all. Lately, this idea has been contested, but Hugh J. McCann maintains that God creates the […]
Ingenious Genes: How Gene Regulation Networks Evolve to Control Development by Roger Sansom
By Roger Sansom Published by The MIT Press Each of us is a collection of more than ten trillion cells, busy performing tasks crucial to our continued existence. Gene regulation networks, consisting of a subset of genes called transcription factors, control cellular activity–producing the right gene activities for the many situations that the multiplicity of […]
Testimony, Trust, and Authority by Benjamin McMyler
By Benjamin McMyler Published by Oxford University Press Much of what we know is acquired by taking things on the word of other people whom we trust and treat as authorities concerning what to believe. But what exactly is it to take someone’s word for something? What is it to treat another as an authority […]
Animal Ethics in Context
by Clare Palmer Published by Columbia University Press It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to […]